PhD defence Ms C. (Corinne) Lamain

Below is a brief summary of the dissertation: 

Climate change being a threat to security, peace and stability is an increasingly dominant framing in academic, policy and activist circles. These ‘climate security’ debates know stark disagreements about causal relations between climate change, conflict and security. Meanwhile, climate security is moving beyond the discursive realm and is finding its way into policies and practices, that have implications for the use and control of land, water, forests. Consequently, climate security sees an increased engagement of military power and interests with approaches for climate mitigation and adaptation. Literature on climate security, also in critical approaches, has primarily engaged with its discourse, its embedding in broader debates on environmental and human security and with its problematisation. This dissertation contributes to the literature by answers the question how climate security manifests discursively and practically in an era of militarisation of ecologies, with what implications for climate justice. It does so by outlining the rise, expansion and continued stretching of climate security as a discourse and practice globally, and with emergence of new strands in Nepal. It problematises climate security and offers alternatives for moving forward towards just climate action.